One Huge Chilean Party

June 15, 2014

Dear family and friends --

This week is best described as one huge Chilean party. And no, not because I am twenty one now (all of the Chileans think that I am like 27 simply because I am so tall jeje)..I am talking about the Mundial! On Friday, Chile played against Australia and seriously, we could hear the score of the game because every time Chile scored a goal there was a huge thump of people pounding the floors and cheering. So, hermana Howell and I tried to think of people who didn't like futbol much, knocked on the door of an investigator, and were answered with "Chicas!! Hurry! Come in!!" and this little timid woman, Gloria, was decked out with her hats, watching the game at full blast, and her ravenous Chile fan had come out (she started crying when they scored). whew. 

hermana howell and I wore red and  blue (the Chilean colors to support) and I promise, I am obsessed with Chile, but the truth is that hermana Howell and I are secretly praying that Chile looses because it would be much, much better for the work hahahaha. How terrible. Not one Chilean can know that or they would NOT let us in. 

Other funny moment this week: We were teaching Olga, a sweet little grandmother when someone knocked at the door. She was going to ignore it, but she is such a sweetheart that she can´t ignore ANYONE, so Olga went, answered the door, and invited them in. Lo and behold, in came in two woman...and they were Jehovah´s witnesses. I don’t know who was more thrown off, them or us. I think them. They sat down (Olga was thoroughly enjoying herself) and I we kept on teaching about prayer and invited them to share with us and so they shared about the Lord´s prayer and then they, as hermana Howell best said it "got awkwarded out and bounced."

#jointteachingwithwitnesses

My birthday was awesome. hermana Howell made me breakfast, Luz gave me once, and the members pretended they didn’t remember, because the day afterwards they threw us both a surprise party (because hermana Howell has her birthday a month ago) with cake and lots of love. They told us we had a meeting and then...SURRPISE!! …when we arrived. It meant so much to me, seriously. 

News for the week: CAMBIOS! hermana Howell is headed out and I will have a new companion, hermana Lethgo. We will keep being hermana lideres. I am going to miss her a ton. 

Cata progressed this week, but didn’t come to church on Sunday. She has been a bit down, and so hermana  Howell and I are going to push back her date. We don’t want the gospel to be simply a phase that she goes through, we want her to continue with a real conversion. But please, please, keep her in your prayers. 

SHOUT OUT TO THE BEST FATHER IN THE WORLD! Love you dad!

Love, 

hermana Monroe